What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

[SY2455]

Re: What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

Removing and replacing the bushings are the hard part . Off jack stands at home I would say no more than a hour or so to tear apart 1 side . Take them to work do the bushings and clean them up , then maybe a couple hours to put them all back in .

:tup: What he said. That it apart at home than take the parts to work to R/R the bushings. Unless you have a press at home. You are welcome to use mine if it helps, but it is only a 30 ton press and the distance may be a problem.

 

[rxsyclone]

Re: What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

Great, thanks a lot! Sounds like the perfect solution.

 

[pbrito28]

Re: What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

Great, thanks a lot! Sounds like the perfect solution.

Hey Roland! Long time man.
How are you and Martha? Still playing PS2?
Look, I bought a Sy 2 weeks ago. LMK if you're comingo to north miami this weekend, or maybe I'll be at Gary's house. I still have to call him.

Pedro

 

[rxsyclone]

Re: What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

Congratulations! I know you've been wanting one for a while. Enjoy it and I know you will take great care of it. Yes we are still playing racing games on the PS2 when we are not actually racing (Moroso and events at Hialeah Race Track). As far as attending any meets well I am not aware of any soon (??) and I would most likely have to take my T78 RX-7 since my Sy has scary suspension problems (hehe - you thought that C5 was nasty on the highway...). Anyway always pleasure hanging with you guys, and I plan on attending some huge car show at Kendall Mitsubishi on Sept 14th.

 

[SY2455]

Re: What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

It's getting REALLY bad. Now that I got my RX-7 running, I am ready to pull the Sy apart. I am debating to do it at home or at work on a lift. At work we're really busy, and I'd get in trouble for having it there several days. I'd feel more comfortable doing it in my garage on jack stands, if that's possible. My buddy from work also said that we may not get it aligned good enough at home to drive it 2 miles to work (where there is an alignment rack). Is that a concern? How hard is it to change all 8 control arm bushings? Thanks.

Check your upper bushings, I had one just come apart on me about 1 year ago.

 

[pinellas50]

Re: What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

Just curious if you ever got to the bottom of your problem. My Ty is doing the exact same thing. The Pitman arm and pass side ball joints were replaced about 4 months ago. It also has a real bad metal slapping around noise(don't know how else to describe it) when turning left and hitting any kind of bump. It ocassionally does this in a straight line with a big bump. It likes to go into the next lane over railroad tracks.

I plan on rebuilding the front suspension with all Energy Suspension bushings. Hopefully that cures it. Before I pull it apart, my buddy is gonna put it on a rack and shake the front suspension down to see if there is anything else going on.

I keep reading about torsion bar mounts. Where exactly are these? Where they go into the cross member near the center of the truck?---EDIT----Never mind on this one. I just had to do a little more searching to find the answer.

 

[pinellas50]

Re: What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

I just got done putting new torsion bar mounts in and that cured the noise. That passenger side sucks!

 

[rxsyclone]

Re: What's the deal with the stock SY suspension?

Replaced upper control arm bushing. Problem is gone. Alignment was a pain in the ass. God bless Syclones.